OT: B-class cars (Versa, Fit)

[cjburn_2 at yahoo.com]

--- David Pertuz <davidpertuz at mindspring.com> wrote:

> At 09:53 AM 12/16/06 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 04:04 AM 12/16/2006, David Pertuz wrote:
> >>I had the opportunity to drive a Honda Fit for a
> couple of days this 
> >>week. If I were to buy a new car and didn't want
> to spend the money for, 
> >>say, a Mazda 3, this is probably what I'd get. It
> is such a fun little 
> >>roller skate and reminds me somewhat of my SE-R
> >
> >So how are you getting into all these?  Aren't you
> working @ 
> >Dam-Chrysler?  Are they flying you to remote
> locations and stuffing you 
> >into rental cars?  Or do they have a fleet of "the
> competition" they let 
> >you play with?!
> 
> Yes, I work at DCX. It is a nice privilege/perk of
> my particular job that I 
> get to drive cars on a frequent basis - generally
> almost always ours, 
> whether they are lease cars I'm evaluating or
> performing testing on, or 
> pool vehicles, or engineering vehicles or etc. Like
> all automakers, DCX has 
> various competitive vehicles on hand that are used
> for teardowns, testing, 
> benchmarking, evaluation, etc. Since I work in
> Vehicle Development it is 
> not hard to get one, especially for short time
> periods (submit a request or 
> just walk over and ask), and I do find it useful in
> my own job to know what 
> the rest of the world (so to speak) is like, so when
> a car is available for 
> a day or two there are a large handful (generally C-
> and D-segment and 
> small crossovers) I'm trying to get some seat time
> in.
> 
> DP 
> 
Since you're in vehicle development, how is the SRT4
version of the Caliber going to be?  


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